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Re:Dear Microsoft by nmblackburn on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @10:56AM (#12855379)
Bad move on Slack, accept your competition and work to stay ahead of the game that you no longer have a monopoly on.
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Re:Dear Microsoft by pjmlp on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @11:29AM (#12855761)
They never were.

We only use a mix of Microsoft Lync and Lotus Sametime.

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Re:Dear Microsoft by douche on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @11:51AM (#12856058)
> Lotus Sametime

You're hanging onto that still? We used to build a number of products for Sametime, but IBM appears to have written it off and is hemorrhaging customers jumping ship, to Lync/Skype mostly, or Jabber, to a lesser extent.

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Re:Dear Microsoft by pjmlp on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @12:14PM (#12856372)
That is what happens when IT dictates the rules.
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Re:Dear Microsoft by rch on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @11:30AM (#12855762)
When did they ever have a monopoly?
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